高英unit11单词.ppt

Lesson 11 The Future of the English Pre-class work: 1. What do you think the author is going to focus on: the future of the English as an international language, the future of the English as a nation or the future of the English people? 2. You are supposed to figure out the type of the essay from the title. It’s an imaginary fiction forecasting the future of the English or not? 3. What do you think the future of your own country and people would be like? Background Information About the Author ⒈ John Boynton Priestley, English novelist, dramatist and critic, was born on 13. Sept. 1894, Bradford, Yorkshire. About the Author About the Author J. B. Priestley as a Novelist J. B. Priestley as a Novelist J. B. Priestley as a Novelist J. B. Priestley as a Dramatist  The whole system of an increasing productivity, plus inflation, plus a rising standard of material living, plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship, plus mass communications, plus cultural democracy and the creation of the mass mind, the mass man the part of society that can be influenced by advertising or publicity A General Description of the Text “The Future of the English” is part exposition and part persuasion o argument. In many respects exposition and argument are closely related. All argument contains a large amount of exposition, for we must make our hearers and readers understand before we can really convince them that our opinion is the right one. The chief difference between exposition and argument is this: A General Description of the Text Exposition is an explanation of facts or of the way in which something is done, to make other people understand; A General Description of the Text “The Future of the English” is loosely organized and as aforementioned, it is part exposition and part argument. The thesis of the exposition is stated in the title. The writer is trying to explain the future of the English people but he doesn’t really state what that future is going to be. A General